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MANIC‐DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS AND SOCIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL SAMPLE
Author(s) -
Monnelly, R.A. Woodruff E. P.,
Robins L. N.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1974.tb08217.x
Subject(s) - psychology , psychiatry , academic achievement , replicate , clinical psychology , bipolar disorder , family history , medicine , developmental psychology , cognition , statistics , mathematics , radiology
This is the third in a series of investigations of social effectiveness defined by educational and occupational achievement among patients with primary affective disorder. As in previous studies, there is no evidence that patients with primary affective disorder differ significantly in social achievement from their own siblings. This study in an attempt to replicate achievement from their own siblings. This study is an attempt to replicate previous findings that bipolar patients and their family members have higher levels of social achievement than unipolar patients and their family members. The results of this study confirm previous results among publically hospitalized patients when they have a history of previous private hospitalization. The hypothesis that a social advantage is associated with bipolar primary affective disorder is not supported by data from publically hospitalized patients without a history of previous private hospitalization. The possible reasons for these findings are discussed, as well as the type of study wich would be required to resolve the questions raised by the present investigation.